Wikipedia: wrong author displayed

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The Wikipedia module (see Author/Home page) doesn't currently account for birth/death dates attached to author names, so it sometimes brings up the biography of the wrong person. We should investigate whether it is feasible to parse dates and avoid false positive matches.

We should consider merging this with the current trunk Wikipedia code; perhaps this would also justify a new [Wikipedia] section in config.ini to allow configuration of some of the advanced features. The possibility of whitelisting/blacklisting certain name has also been mentioned and might be another useful addition to configuration files.

Demian Katz
added a comment - 22/Sep/10 10:40 AM Mark Triggs from the National Library of Australia has shared their Wikipedia code here:
http://gist.github.com/590822
This adds some extra smarts, like dealing with birth/death dates and filtering out authors without words like "author" in their entries.
Unfortunately, it also adds a new PEAR dependency ( http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Wiki_Mediawiki/ ).
We should consider merging this with the current trunk Wikipedia code; perhaps this would also justify a new [Wikipedia] section in config.ini to allow configuration of some of the advanced features. The possibility of whitelisting/blacklisting certain name has also been mentioned and might be another useful addition to configuration files.

VUFIND-629 does a good job of solving this problem, so I'm going to close this ticket. If somebody wants to try to port the old NLA code to VuFind 2.0, feel free to open a new ticket with a patch... but I don't think that's likely to be a high priority for anyone.

Demian Katz
added a comment - 16/Nov/12 1:16 PM VUFIND-629 does a good job of solving this problem, so I'm going to close this ticket. If somebody wants to try to port the old NLA code to VuFind 2.0, feel free to open a new ticket with a patch... but I don't think that's likely to be a high priority for anyone.